Electronic Issue (EI) #55,  August 1, 2003

Contents:

• Letter from the Editor 
   

• Conference and Workshop Announcements

  • Information on CRA Grand Challenges in Information Security and Assurance, Airlie House, Warrenton, VA, USA
    November 16-19, 2003

  • Information on NSF Cyber Trust Principal Investigators Meeting JHU Information Security Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
    August 14, 2003

  • Cipher calls-for-papers and calendar
      new calls or announcements added since Cipher E54 (the calls-for-papers and the calendar announcements may differ slightly in content or time of update): 

  • Workshop at ACM Ubicomp'03: Ubicomp communities - privacy as boundary negotiation, Seattle, Washington, USA, October 12, 2003. (submissions due August 8, 2003)

  • SISW 2003 The Second IEEE International Security in Storage Workshop, Washington, DC, USA, October 31, 2003 (submissions due August 11, 2003)

  • NDSS'04 The 11th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, California, USA, February 4-6, 2004. (submissions due August 31, 2003)

  • PRDC'2004 10th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, March 3-5, 2004, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. (submissions due September 5, 2003)

  • AINA 2004 The 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, (special session on electronic commerce and security), March 29-31, 2004, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Fukuoka, Japan. (submissions due September 30, 2003)

  • ICETE 2004 International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks, Setubal, Portugal, August 25-28, 2004. (submissions due February 15, 2004)

• Commentary and Opinion

  • Jon Millen's review of the Computer Security Foundations Workshop, June 29-July 3, 2003

  • Robert Bruen's review of the book, Modelling and Analysis of Security Protocols by Peter Ryan, Steven Schneider, M. H. Goldsmith, G. Lowe, and A. W. Roscoe

  • Robert Bruen's review of the book, Data Privacy and Security by David Salomon

  • Robert Bruen's review of the book, Secrets of Computer Espionage: Tactics and Countermeasures by Joel McNamara

  • NewsBits:  Announcements and correspondence from readers (please contribute!)

  • Book reviews from past Cipher issues

  • Conference Reports and Commentary from past Cipher issues

  • News items from past Cipher issues

 

• Reader's guide to recent security and privacy literature
  (last updated March 15, 2002)

 

• Listing of academic positions available  by Cynthia Irvine
  

 

• Staying in touch....

  • Information for Subscribers and Contributors

  • Who's where: recent address changes

  • Changing your email address?  Please send updates to cipher@ieee-security.org

   
• Interesting links  and reports available via FTP and WWW